Literary Devices In Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood Capote incorporates many literary devices in his breakthrough “non-fiction novel” to persuade the reader to his opposition of the death penalty. Tone is one of Capote’s most effectively used devices. When Hickock and Smith first arrive at the Kansas State Penitentiary, Capote describes the prison as a “coffin shaped edifice” (pg. 309), and the black mesh covering the windows as a “widow’s veil”. Perfectly depicting the morbid atmosphere of death row, the “unpainted wooden gallows” (pg. 310) that sit in “The Corner.” The tone at the end of the book, displays Dewey’s confused emotions at not feeling “a sense of climax” (pg. 341) at Dick and Perry’s death. Instead Dewey felt more of a climax, “leaving behind… the